Basic Colored Pencil Techniques- Bet Borgeson

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This book aims to teach the beginning artist all the tricks and techniques such as layering, burnishing and lifting color needed to master the use of colored pencils. Featured are easy-to-follow demonstrations that show how to draw trees, flowes, animals, people and more. Advice and information on tools and choosing the right materials are also included.

Colored Pencil Step by Step Book- Walter Foster Presents

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Whether you’re a novice or an accomplished artist who has never experimented with colored pencil, this book will provide all the instruction and inspiration you need to master the medium. With guidance from renowned colored pencil artists and step-by-step instructions, the 11 vibrant and colorful lessons demonstrate a variety of special techniques and tricks.

Complete Colored Pencil Book- Bernard Poulin

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This book is a comprehensive technique book that offers the full spectrum of colored pencil instruction. Artists of all skill levels will enjoy helpful tips on improving their drawing skills and creating dozens of lifelike textures. It includes more than ten step-by-step demonstrations that focus on the results of specific tools and materials and chapters dedicated to portraits, still-lifes and landscapes.

Creating Textures Colored Pencil- Gary Greene

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Create colored pencil rendering rich with lifelike textures with over 50 detailed step-by-step demonstrations presented in this book. It provides inspiration and information to both beginner and intermediate artists who want to further their knowledge with this medium. The simple techniques illustrated inside this book allows artists to achieve the subtle contours of a rose, a rough orange rind, weathered wood, shiny metal, a child’s soft skin and more than 50 other textures that will add exciting new dimensions to their work.

Painting the Landscape in Pastel Book- Albert Handell

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Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instructions to help first-time pastelists achieve impressive results as soon as they begin working with the medium. After reviewing pastel supplies, the author discusses landscape composition and how to establish large shapes first, abstract certain areas, develop a focal point, work from dark to light and capture the illusion of reality through color. Stepped demonstrations isolate specific landscape aspects, showing the pastelist how to depict skies, trees, buildings, water, rocks, woods, snow and light. This paperback edition is 128 pages with 150 color illustrations.

Pastel Painting Atelier- Ellen Eagle

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Aimed at the serious beginner to the advanced artist, this book provides a complete course in the history, materials, and techniques of pastel, a medium widely admired for its sensuous textures and rich purity of color. It is a comprehensive guide to the qualities of pastel, as well as the techniques and practices involved in using them. The book follows the development and manufacture of pastels from the 15th century to the modern day, when the culmination of a full palette of color led to artistic expansion in richly hued paintings. Featuring the work of old masters, as well as a number of notable contemporary artists, it offers inspiration in the possibilities of this vibrant medium. It explores all the stages of mastering pastel, from materials, application and formal techniques to explorations of personal vision and aesthetic.